Madden NFL 12 Player Ratings - Arizona Cardinals and San Francisco 49ers

[belucheez]

If I ever do a Niners franchise, Kaepernick is my guy.

His awareness seems extremely low, but after about a year of dealing with Alex Smith's flaws, he should be rated decent.

[angels eclipse7]

Quote: Originally Posted by infemous

Taylor mays is ridiculously overrated. I mean, how wrong can his ratings be? The mad top end speed is bang on, he's a freak, but does anyone else remember that his stiff hips greatly impact his lateral movement and agility, which are 90's here... And coupled with poor spacial awareness leads to him sucking in zone? Why is he an 81 zone? Did he prove he was good in zone last year? I can only smh St these ratings. Is there a particular reason as to why the ratings are significantly increased from m11? What happened to the scaled back approach to ratings promised in m10? They've gone up each year, leading to the public belief that 70 and 80 are low ratings and not worth anything... Am i the only one who's noticed this?

I'm with you. And I can explain, too. In recent years, they have had it set up so that players in their 50s are rare and the weak end of your roster. Well, now they are going from 53 player rosters to 70 player rosters. But instead of having 50 rated players the guys that barely make your team like last year and M10, they are bunching 70 players per team into the same ratings as the 53 were. In other words, they are dumb and bunching the ratings together. The lowest guys who wouldn't stand a chance at making the team are rated the same as guys who would have been on the team in M10. In other words, they were stretching 53 players per team among about 50 overall rating points in Madden 10. Now they are stretching 70 players among 50 overall points causing players to be rated closer together and everybody being rated higher than the last two years. They should have just had those preseason bodies been rated lower and kept them stretched out.... but that's EA for ya.

[Faizon]

Taylor Mays under human control is probably the best defensive back in the game, plus he's got A potential



Seahawks tomorrow baby!

[DUDERMAN]

Quote: Originally Posted by infemous

Am i the only one who's noticed this?

I noticed it. I had a feeling they changed the OVR formula just by looking at the ratings this year. I confirmed they changed the formula when I matched the new ratings for Mike Kafka in Madden 11 to what they have listed for Madden 12 and found that with all identical stats, he is 2 less OVR in Madden 11.

[peter77733]

As a 49ers fan, im sad that we lost Franklin and Lawson. Clements is no biggie since Rogers is an 80. The starting OLB's are pathetic. I dont like Haralson and Smith is a rookie. UGH. Cant wait to see how Bowman does playing next to Willis. Whitner will be the starting SS at 85 and if Smith gets moved to FS, he should easily be rated higher than Goldson. Mays is too damn stiff in coverage and is on the trading block in real life. I say trade him and a second rounder to PHI for CB Asante Samuel.

Gore, Edwards, Crabtree and Davis are going to be damn good. OL is better than I was expecting but Rachal should be lower. He sucks. As for Alex, I think a 75 overall rating is good and where he should be. I rather have him over Kolb who quite honestly, is going to make A.J. Feeley seem like a steal in comparision. Guy is crap.

[peter77733]

Smith 75, Gore 91, Edwards 85, Crabtree 81, Davis 91, Staley 88, Iupati 88, Goodwin (Saints), Snyder 79 and Davis 77.

Smith 92, Sopoaga (??? position change), McDonald 72, Haralson 78, Willis 98, Bowman 73, Smith 76, Spencer 81, Rogers 80, Whitner 85 and Goldson 79.

I'm going to move Reggie Smith to FS. He should jump at least two points to 80. LB core and DL are a definite weakness outside of Justin Smith and Willis. UGH. Amazingly, for the first time since the Garcia/Owens era, the offense is rated higher than the defense.

[Faizon]

Yeah that does suck you lost Lawson, he's a Madden freak. 6'6" and 90 speed and 90+ FNM. I would always nab him and move him to DE where he's incredible in Madden.

[goldrush85]

Patrick Willis doesnt have 90 AWR... This man is a tackling machine and he has less awareness than J Beason of Carolina.... Give me a break. Vernon is a Blocking Machine running and passing. Madden has never acknowledged that and Vernon's rating should be closer to A Gates of SD. Lets not talk about T Gonzalez who is at the end of his career but still ranked in the 90s.. Give me a break.

Some of these players should be ranked lower on ALL of this Madden 12 but are not. The 9ers got talent at almost every position... ITs been the QB that has slowed this team down... Therefore, the reason why the New Madden team inserted the players traits.... True to the game... Only hope it works.... But P Willis and V Davis should be ranked higher